The New New Things

The oven timer just dinged and some of the things we’ve been cooking up
in Flickr HQ are ready for serving. If you want to dive right in, check out the new explore page and skip the rest of this post ;)

The other new feature is called interestingness and it’s huge! A long time in the making, interestingness is a ranking algorithm based on user behavior around the photos taking into account some obvious things like how many users add the photo to their favorites and some subtle things like the relationship between the person who uploaded the photo and the people who are commenting (plus a whole bunch of secret sauce).

This is early days – now that the features are live we’ll be tweaking and testing, improving and enhacing — think of this as our v0.1 release — but the results are already great. And it is wonderful to be able to build on top of the mountains of data that wash into Flickr every day: better search through people!

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“I’ve never struggled so much to capture one picture,” Matthias Dengler explained. “This adventure was the starting point of my photographic career.”

He dreamed of photographing the unique overlook for quite some time. During a six month stint living in Norway he knew he would have few opportunities to reach his destination. He made it part of his morning routine to check weather reports for the perfect day. One morning it was clear. The rain would break for about a day. This was his chance!

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